Hannah’s Reviews > Summer Island > Status Update

Good grief every page of this is set up and described like a Kodak moment with big foam fingers pointing to it "this is a sentimental memory - it's TOUCHING". It's getting painful, and you can tell the third wave of feminism seems to have passed this by. It was published before the fourth and boy is it obvious. I'll try to speed read the rest.

An ok holiday read so far, but the "family drama" feels pretty tame to be honest. And I do get irritated with lazy turns of phrase like seeing "emotion" in someone's eyes.

This book is dated to exactly the time of my childhood and makes me feel rather old 😅 I've read quite a few by this author and can tell this is before she'd developed into a better writer, but this is still a nice read.

It's strange reading a book published and set in 2001, when you could experience a media blackout by simply unplugging your landline phone and TV.